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69th Year - No. 259 (iood Morning! It's Friday. July 22. 1977 2 Sections - 26 Pages - 15 Cents
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thinking ahead
By Betty Connor
Missourian staff writer
Mitchell Bennett is caught up now in
contract talks with the city of the next
fiscal year. But the business manager
of Local 45 of the Public Service
Employes Union already is thinking
about this time next year.
Perhaps even before the fiscal year
begins Oct. 1, Bennett will start pushing
for new negotiating procedures that he
wants to strengthen the local's position
in future bouts with the city ad-ministration.
The union, affiliated with the
Laborers International Union of North
America AFL-CI- O, is the bargaining
pEEES
agent for about 200 municipal employes
in the Parks and Recreation Depart-ment,
data processing, mixed refuse,
the municipal power plant and the
sewer and street divisions. About 100 of
these employes are members of the
local.
In ..adcHWon. the local .regwnto
about 700 non-academ- ic employes at
the University.
This is the second of a four-pa-rt series
on labor organizations' bargaining with
the city. The Columbia Missourian on
Saturday and Sunday will report on the
Water and Light Employes Association
and the Columbia Folice Officers'
Association, respectively.
Local 45's long-standin- g dream has
been to have some sort of leverage
when the city and the union sit down at
the bargaining table. State law man-dates
that the parties "meet, confer
and discuss" wages and other condi-tions
of employment. But the city ad-ministration
can recommend its own
proposal to the City Council for final
approval. The union legally has to
accept the city's final contract offer.
"The city could meet and discuss and
put their feet up on the desk and do
what the hell they wanted to do in the
first place," Bennett said.
The union bitterly fought the 6 per
cent wage hike it received last year.
Union officials said any percentage
wage hike discriminates against lower-pai- d
employes, and proposed a 30-ce- nt,
hourly across-the-boa- rd increase in-stead.
The conflict promises to present
itself again this year when the union
and city meet July 29 to discuss the
union's requested 60-cen- t, across-the-boar- d
wage increase.
"I don't think the city has violated the
law, but I don't think they've always
lived up to the intent of the law like in
their (1976) unilateral action," Bennett
said. I
In February of this year, 16 workers I
filed a grievance concerning what they
considered unfair overtime com-pensation.
Department heads, permitted to
reward overtime with either vacation
days or overtime pay, had been
granting additional pay. The workers
argued for the extra vacation time.
It was decided that the employes
would have the option of accumulating
40 hours of vacation time before being
compensated with overtime pay, a
decision Bennett says was fair.
But he believes not having some sort
of leverage over the city cripples the
union in its contract talks with the city
administration.
He wants the union and the city to use
a fact-findi- ng third party chosen by the
American Arbitration Association to
help solve any future wage impasse.
The fact-findi-ng body would issue a
formal, public recommendation based
on records of the negotiations. The
recommendation usually is intended to
pressure the parties toward an
agreement.
The Columbia Police Officers'
Association has proposed that the City
Personnel Advisory Board serve as a
fact-findi-ng body. Bennett said he
believes the present board, composed
of citizens appointed to serve without
pay, could oversee impartially
negotiations between the union and
city.
"I'm not opposing that, but that's not
my recommendation," Bennett said.
"We have to recognize in the future the
City Council appoints the members,
and the make-u-p of the Personnel
Advisory Board could change."
If fact-findi-ng fails, Bennett would
like to see the union and the city engage
in voluntary arbitration binding on the
negotiators, in this case the city
manager and the union leadership. This
(See UNION, page 11)
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to police department
By Julie Steckelberg
Missourian staff writer
It may look like a spectacular clearance sale, says Paul
Neal, but each item in the Columbia Police Department's
evidence room has a reason for being there.
"From guns and narcotics to coats and flagpoles, this
evidence room has had all types of things for all types of
reasons. You name it and we've had it"
Evidence is "anything taken as proof of crime or stolen
or recovered articles," says Neal, evidence technician for
the police department. "And the evidence room serves as a
storage place until the case is settled."
The evidence room, which measures 11 by 15 feet (3.3 by
4.5 meters), is in the basement of the police building.
Large items such as bicycles, television sets and stereos
are stored in the municipal building's basement.
Narcotics and liquor are stored in large quantities in the
evidence room. "Any cases of driving while intoxicated or
minors in possession usually means we'll get the booze
until the case is heard in court," says Neal. "And any
narcotics involved in a drug sale are likewise routed to
us."
The most unusual item Neal remembers receiving is a
car seat. "The burglars wiped out the house. They took the
stereo and TV, and then they must have found they
couldn't fit it all in the car, so they just ripped the car seat
out."
Since Neal became evidence technician in January, he
has found his job includes many duties. He photographs
evidence at the scenes of all major crimes in Columbia,
develops mug shots and is responsible for processing all
evidence which comes into the police department pending
court trial or location of owner. He also disposes of
evidence after the case has been settled.
Disposing of the evidence can be a lengthy process, says
Neal. Each piece of evidence must be tagged according to
time, date and place of the incident and individuals in-volved.
A purpose for evidence retention must be given. I
Some items are kept for court evidence, others for in- - I
vestigation, fingerprint examination, chemical analysis, I
lost-and-fou- nd storage or safekeeping until the owner can I
reclaim the item. I
"Items from a major case may remain in the evidence I
room up to two years awaiting appeal of the case," says 1
Neal. A court order from the prosecutor's office must be I
received before Neal can dispose of personal property, J
narcotics or weapons. The narcotics and weapons are
destroyed, but personal property is handled differently. I
Most personal property is returned to the owner, but f
some valuable items may never be reclaimed. "Many
times burglars can't remember where they stole things
from," said Neal. "If the owners don't report the articles
missing and we can't find the owner by running the serial
numbers through the National Crime Information Center
Computers or running a newspaper ad, there's not much
more we can do."
Columbia residents may benefit from this accumulation
of unclaimed evidence. Each year the police department
has an auction which offers everything from bicycles to
cigarettes. Prices are usually low, and profits from the
auction go into general revenue.
"This year we plan to have the auction sometime in
August," said Neal. "It will probably be on the back lot
behind the municipal building. There should be some
really good deals."
So if you're in the market for one car seat, a flagpole or
an ordinary bicycle, the police department auction may
have just what you've been looking for.
Education master plan to be created
By Mary Little
Missourian staff writer
The Master Planning Committee of
the state Coordinating Board of Higher
Education will meet in a marathon
session from 9 ajn. to 3:30 p.m. in the
University Memorial Union today to
hammer out a draft of the new master
plan for higher education in Missouri.
One proposal for spending more state
money on higher education might
require a tax increase.
The committee will formulate the
draft for the new plan based on
recommendations made by six
technical committees." The master plan
is a guideline for all higher education in
Missouri, said Bruce Robertson,
commissioner of higher education.
Some of the recommendations to be
discussed are:
k-- An increase in the percentage of
state revenue allocated to higher
education in Missouri.
v An increase in salaries for em-ployes
in higher education.
Full funding of the Missouri
Student Grant Program.
A study of retirement polices for
staff persons in higher education.
Licensing andor regulation by the
board of all proprietary schools in the
state.
v More uniformity in student in-cidental
fees statewide.
An increase in state aid for junior
colleges.
The draft developed from today's
meeting will be sent to the coordinating
board for further discussion and
amendments, Robertson said. The
board will then open the plan to public
hearings in the fall. The final plan is
expected to be approved by December,
he said.
The coordinating board's Advisory
Committee will meet from 3:30 to 5:30
p.m. today in the Union. The agenda for
that meeting has not been announced,
committee member Charles McClain
said..
The coordinating board will meet
from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the
Union to approve higher education
programs proposed by individual in-stitutions.
All of the meetings are open to the
public, Robertson said.
The finance technical committee has
recommended that Missouri, which
ranks 35th nationwide in the percentage
of state revenue allocated to higher
education, increase its percentage of
allocation to the national average.
According to the committee report,
"Missouri imposes a low burden of tax
on its citizenry and correspondingly
expends a low amount in support of
post-seconda- ry education." The in-crease
would require "a substantial
change in the taxation policies of the
state," the report said.
The state legislature's allocation of
$255 million to higher education for the
1977-7- 8 school year represents 18.05 per
cent of state revenue, said Eldon
Wallace, assistant state budget
director. Figures were unavailable for
the national average.
The committee also recommended an
increase in faculty salaries to the
corresponding national average within
the next five years.
According to the report, University of
Missouri salaries for professors are 19.9
per cent below the national average for
comparable universities, amounting to
a $4,600 yearly salary difference.
The committee report also recom-mended
that non-academ- ic salaries be
raised to a level needed to recruit
competent staff.
In other recommendation the finance
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By Peter Tuz
Missourian staff writer
The Boone County Planning and
Zoning Commission Thursday night
defeated 6 to 1 a zoning change that
would have permitted development
of a 150-acr- e (60-hectar- e) sub-division
10 miles (15.5 kilometers)
north of Columbia near Missouri 124.
I Keith Kraner, owner of the
property, sought rezoning from A-- 2,
2 acre (1 hectare) residential land,
to A--R, half-acr- e (.2 hectare)
residential land.
Harrisburg builder Ronald Harris
said he wanted to put "55 houses
over the next five to ten years" on
the land.
Harris said lot sizes on the sub--
.
division would have ranged from one
to three acres (.4 to 1.2 hectares).
Two lakes, one 25 acres (10 hec-tares)
and one 10 acres (4 hectares),
also would have been included in the
subdivision.
Hog farmer Jesse Stone, a
resident of the area, said the sub-division
would create dust and
drainage problems for1 him. "I don't
think the roads can hold the traffic,"
he said.
"I don't want a 150-ac- re (60-hecta- re)
subdivision in my back
yard." Stone said he also feared the
increased taxes the subdivision
might bring.
County Court Presiding Judge Bill
Freeh, who voted againt the requests
said he foresaw problems with
subdivision residents wanting
residential services in the future.
"It's been the experience of the
County Court Jhat a great many
people do love to live in the country
but it's rare that you don't have
some of the people who feel they
have to have residential services
like the people in the city."
Freeh said the area where the
subdivision was to be located is "one
of the last places where the county
can offer residential services some
people will want."
Commission Chairman Lynn
Drane, the only member favoring
the request, said the subdivision is ' necessary.
"We need something up there to
(See FRECH, page 11)
CATV
today
By Brad Martin
Missourian staff writer
When former mayor Boh Pugh flips a
switch this afternoon, the age of cable
television will begin officially in
Columbia.
Pugh will activate the Columbia
Cablevision system at the system's
grand opening, scheduled for 2 p.m. at
the Tiger Hotel Ballroom.
Columbia Mayor Les Proctor will
activate "home box office" service, an
additional outlet featuring recent
movies, sporting events and per- -
formances by leading entertainers.
Columbia Cablevision has received
about 2,000 applications for the sen-ic- e
so far, with about 40 per cent coming
from the Third and Fourth wards.
Final installations for the ap-proximately
200 subscribers in the
Fourth Ward will begin today with the
rest of the Columbia subscribers
scheduled to be hooked up to the system
by the end of March 1978. Cable sub-scribers
will be able to receive 16
television and 24 FM radio stations
along with home box office. Subscribers
may choose one, two or all three of the
services.
Cable subscribers will be able to view
programs from four St. Louis stations,
two Kansas City stations and seven
local outlets.
The FM cable service will pickup
signals from 17 Missouri stations.
From St. Louis, KTVI, ABC on
channel 2; KMOX, CBS on channel 4
and KSD, NBC on channel 5, will be
available, although their programming
is essentially the same as Columbia's
and Jefferson City's present television
stations. KMOX, a 23-hour-a--
day
station, appears to be the most valuable
of the three simply because of its late-nig- ht
movies, a service Columbia
presently lacks.
KETC, the St. Louis Public Broad-casting
System outlet on channel 9, also
will be available. The station offers a
variety of children's educational
programs Sesame Street, Zoom, and
Electric Company along with many
documentaries and movies.
From Kansas City, KBMA, an in-dependent
station on channel 14, and
KCPT, PBS on channel 19. will be
available. KBMA lists many syndicated
programs, from Popeye and Bozo to
Star Trek and The Best of Groucho.
KCPT has basically the same listings
as St. Louis' KETC.'although it does list
Masterpiece Theater and Book Beat.
In addition to these stations,
(See CABLEVISION, page 14)
r lit town a
today
7:30p.m. "Dial 'M' for Mur-der."
Nifong Park, $1 adults, 50
cents children.
8 p.m. "The Hot 1 Baltimore,"
University Theatre, $2.50.
8 p.m. MSA Coffeehouse, J
Bengal Lair Deck, Memorial
Union.
8:15 p.m. Missouri Symphony
Society Chamber Orchestra with
soloist Bil Jackson, Windsor
Lounge, Stephens.
8:15 p.m. "The Beautiful
People," Arrow Rock Lyceum
Theatre, Arrow Rock, $3.50
adults, $2.25 children.
Exhibits:
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibit
schedules.
Movie listings on page 13.
Disabled vets9 blind to be allowed
to fish without buying licenses
By Sue A. Merkner
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Severely
disabled veterans and blind persons
now will be able to fish in Missouri
without purchasing a license, the
Missouri Conservation Commission
decided Thursday.
The decision requires veterans with a
75 per cent disability and blind persons
to carry proof of their disability while
fishing in lieu of a state permit.
Larry Gale, deputy director of the
commission, said the provision has
been used successfully in other states
and involves only a small number of
persons, "usually less than 1 per cent."
Gale estimated that "a few
thousand" persons in Missouri would be
affected by the decision.
Gale said the provision probably
would not take effect before Jan. 1,
1978.
Several other states have such
provisions for the blind, disabled or
mentally handicapped, Gale said, in-cluding
Utah, Washington, Virginia,
Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama, Con-necticut
and Colorado.
Gale said the percentage of persons
receiving free privileges in those states
range from about two-thousan- ds of a
per cent to five-tent- hs of a per cent of
the total number- - of permits issued in
the state.
The conservation department has
received inquiries in the past en-couraging
such a provision, Gale said,
especially from eastern counties along
the Mississippi tuver.
Gale added that although the
provision is "workable," it also
presents problems.
"We had to strictly define 'disabled'
and 'blind,' " he said. "The disability
must be proven by a medical
examination and the person must carry
proof of the disability."
The provision allows free fishing
without a permit for Missouri residents
with a "degree of blindness that
prevents them from driving a car or, in
medical terms, having a visual acuity
not exceeding 20-200- ," Gale said.
The disability requirement applies to
state residents that are honorably
discharged veterans with a service-connect- ed
disability of 75 per cent or
more.

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69th Year - No. 259 (iood Morning! It's Friday. July 22. 1977 2 Sections - 26 Pages - 15 Cents
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thinking ahead
By Betty Connor
Missourian staff writer
Mitchell Bennett is caught up now in
contract talks with the city of the next
fiscal year. But the business manager
of Local 45 of the Public Service
Employes Union already is thinking
about this time next year.
Perhaps even before the fiscal year
begins Oct. 1, Bennett will start pushing
for new negotiating procedures that he
wants to strengthen the local's position
in future bouts with the city ad-ministration.
The union, affiliated with the
Laborers International Union of North
America AFL-CI- O, is the bargaining
pEEES
agent for about 200 municipal employes
in the Parks and Recreation Depart-ment,
data processing, mixed refuse,
the municipal power plant and the
sewer and street divisions. About 100 of
these employes are members of the
local.
In ..adcHWon. the local .regwnto
about 700 non-academ- ic employes at
the University.
This is the second of a four-pa-rt series
on labor organizations' bargaining with
the city. The Columbia Missourian on
Saturday and Sunday will report on the
Water and Light Employes Association
and the Columbia Folice Officers'
Association, respectively.
Local 45's long-standin- g dream has
been to have some sort of leverage
when the city and the union sit down at
the bargaining table. State law man-dates
that the parties "meet, confer
and discuss" wages and other condi-tions
of employment. But the city ad-ministration
can recommend its own
proposal to the City Council for final
approval. The union legally has to
accept the city's final contract offer.
"The city could meet and discuss and
put their feet up on the desk and do
what the hell they wanted to do in the
first place," Bennett said.
The union bitterly fought the 6 per
cent wage hike it received last year.
Union officials said any percentage
wage hike discriminates against lower-pai- d
employes, and proposed a 30-ce- nt,
hourly across-the-boa- rd increase in-stead.
The conflict promises to present
itself again this year when the union
and city meet July 29 to discuss the
union's requested 60-cen- t, across-the-boar- d
wage increase.
"I don't think the city has violated the
law, but I don't think they've always
lived up to the intent of the law like in
their (1976) unilateral action," Bennett
said. I
In February of this year, 16 workers I
filed a grievance concerning what they
considered unfair overtime com-pensation.
Department heads, permitted to
reward overtime with either vacation
days or overtime pay, had been
granting additional pay. The workers
argued for the extra vacation time.
It was decided that the employes
would have the option of accumulating
40 hours of vacation time before being
compensated with overtime pay, a
decision Bennett says was fair.
But he believes not having some sort
of leverage over the city cripples the
union in its contract talks with the city
administration.
He wants the union and the city to use
a fact-findi- ng third party chosen by the
American Arbitration Association to
help solve any future wage impasse.
The fact-findi-ng body would issue a
formal, public recommendation based
on records of the negotiations. The
recommendation usually is intended to
pressure the parties toward an
agreement.
The Columbia Police Officers'
Association has proposed that the City
Personnel Advisory Board serve as a
fact-findi-ng body. Bennett said he
believes the present board, composed
of citizens appointed to serve without
pay, could oversee impartially
negotiations between the union and
city.
"I'm not opposing that, but that's not
my recommendation," Bennett said.
"We have to recognize in the future the
City Council appoints the members,
and the make-u-p of the Personnel
Advisory Board could change."
If fact-findi-ng fails, Bennett would
like to see the union and the city engage
in voluntary arbitration binding on the
negotiators, in this case the city
manager and the union leadership. This
(See UNION, page 11)
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to police department
By Julie Steckelberg
Missourian staff writer
It may look like a spectacular clearance sale, says Paul
Neal, but each item in the Columbia Police Department's
evidence room has a reason for being there.
"From guns and narcotics to coats and flagpoles, this
evidence room has had all types of things for all types of
reasons. You name it and we've had it"
Evidence is "anything taken as proof of crime or stolen
or recovered articles," says Neal, evidence technician for
the police department. "And the evidence room serves as a
storage place until the case is settled."
The evidence room, which measures 11 by 15 feet (3.3 by
4.5 meters), is in the basement of the police building.
Large items such as bicycles, television sets and stereos
are stored in the municipal building's basement.
Narcotics and liquor are stored in large quantities in the
evidence room. "Any cases of driving while intoxicated or
minors in possession usually means we'll get the booze
until the case is heard in court," says Neal. "And any
narcotics involved in a drug sale are likewise routed to
us."
The most unusual item Neal remembers receiving is a
car seat. "The burglars wiped out the house. They took the
stereo and TV, and then they must have found they
couldn't fit it all in the car, so they just ripped the car seat
out."
Since Neal became evidence technician in January, he
has found his job includes many duties. He photographs
evidence at the scenes of all major crimes in Columbia,
develops mug shots and is responsible for processing all
evidence which comes into the police department pending
court trial or location of owner. He also disposes of
evidence after the case has been settled.
Disposing of the evidence can be a lengthy process, says
Neal. Each piece of evidence must be tagged according to
time, date and place of the incident and individuals in-volved.
A purpose for evidence retention must be given. I
Some items are kept for court evidence, others for in- - I
vestigation, fingerprint examination, chemical analysis, I
lost-and-fou- nd storage or safekeeping until the owner can I
reclaim the item. I
"Items from a major case may remain in the evidence I
room up to two years awaiting appeal of the case," says 1
Neal. A court order from the prosecutor's office must be I
received before Neal can dispose of personal property, J
narcotics or weapons. The narcotics and weapons are
destroyed, but personal property is handled differently. I
Most personal property is returned to the owner, but f
some valuable items may never be reclaimed. "Many
times burglars can't remember where they stole things
from," said Neal. "If the owners don't report the articles
missing and we can't find the owner by running the serial
numbers through the National Crime Information Center
Computers or running a newspaper ad, there's not much
more we can do."
Columbia residents may benefit from this accumulation
of unclaimed evidence. Each year the police department
has an auction which offers everything from bicycles to
cigarettes. Prices are usually low, and profits from the
auction go into general revenue.
"This year we plan to have the auction sometime in
August," said Neal. "It will probably be on the back lot
behind the municipal building. There should be some
really good deals."
So if you're in the market for one car seat, a flagpole or
an ordinary bicycle, the police department auction may
have just what you've been looking for.
Education master plan to be created
By Mary Little
Missourian staff writer
The Master Planning Committee of
the state Coordinating Board of Higher
Education will meet in a marathon
session from 9 ajn. to 3:30 p.m. in the
University Memorial Union today to
hammer out a draft of the new master
plan for higher education in Missouri.
One proposal for spending more state
money on higher education might
require a tax increase.
The committee will formulate the
draft for the new plan based on
recommendations made by six
technical committees." The master plan
is a guideline for all higher education in
Missouri, said Bruce Robertson,
commissioner of higher education.
Some of the recommendations to be
discussed are:
k-- An increase in the percentage of
state revenue allocated to higher
education in Missouri.
v An increase in salaries for em-ployes
in higher education.
Full funding of the Missouri
Student Grant Program.
A study of retirement polices for
staff persons in higher education.
Licensing andor regulation by the
board of all proprietary schools in the
state.
v More uniformity in student in-cidental
fees statewide.
An increase in state aid for junior
colleges.
The draft developed from today's
meeting will be sent to the coordinating
board for further discussion and
amendments, Robertson said. The
board will then open the plan to public
hearings in the fall. The final plan is
expected to be approved by December,
he said.
The coordinating board's Advisory
Committee will meet from 3:30 to 5:30
p.m. today in the Union. The agenda for
that meeting has not been announced,
committee member Charles McClain
said..
The coordinating board will meet
from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the
Union to approve higher education
programs proposed by individual in-stitutions.
All of the meetings are open to the
public, Robertson said.
The finance technical committee has
recommended that Missouri, which
ranks 35th nationwide in the percentage
of state revenue allocated to higher
education, increase its percentage of
allocation to the national average.
According to the committee report,
"Missouri imposes a low burden of tax
on its citizenry and correspondingly
expends a low amount in support of
post-seconda- ry education." The in-crease
would require "a substantial
change in the taxation policies of the
state," the report said.
The state legislature's allocation of
$255 million to higher education for the
1977-7- 8 school year represents 18.05 per
cent of state revenue, said Eldon
Wallace, assistant state budget
director. Figures were unavailable for
the national average.
The committee also recommended an
increase in faculty salaries to the
corresponding national average within
the next five years.
According to the report, University of
Missouri salaries for professors are 19.9
per cent below the national average for
comparable universities, amounting to
a $4,600 yearly salary difference.
The committee report also recom-mended
that non-academ- ic salaries be
raised to a level needed to recruit
competent staff.
In other recommendation the finance
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By Peter Tuz
Missourian staff writer
The Boone County Planning and
Zoning Commission Thursday night
defeated 6 to 1 a zoning change that
would have permitted development
of a 150-acr- e (60-hectar- e) sub-division
10 miles (15.5 kilometers)
north of Columbia near Missouri 124.
I Keith Kraner, owner of the
property, sought rezoning from A-- 2,
2 acre (1 hectare) residential land,
to A--R, half-acr- e (.2 hectare)
residential land.
Harrisburg builder Ronald Harris
said he wanted to put "55 houses
over the next five to ten years" on
the land.
Harris said lot sizes on the sub--
.
division would have ranged from one
to three acres (.4 to 1.2 hectares).
Two lakes, one 25 acres (10 hec-tares)
and one 10 acres (4 hectares),
also would have been included in the
subdivision.
Hog farmer Jesse Stone, a
resident of the area, said the sub-division
would create dust and
drainage problems for1 him. "I don't
think the roads can hold the traffic,"
he said.
"I don't want a 150-ac- re (60-hecta- re)
subdivision in my back
yard." Stone said he also feared the
increased taxes the subdivision
might bring.
County Court Presiding Judge Bill
Freeh, who voted againt the requests
said he foresaw problems with
subdivision residents wanting
residential services in the future.
"It's been the experience of the
County Court Jhat a great many
people do love to live in the country
but it's rare that you don't have
some of the people who feel they
have to have residential services
like the people in the city."
Freeh said the area where the
subdivision was to be located is "one
of the last places where the county
can offer residential services some
people will want."
Commission Chairman Lynn
Drane, the only member favoring
the request, said the subdivision is ' necessary.
"We need something up there to
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CATV
today
By Brad Martin
Missourian staff writer
When former mayor Boh Pugh flips a
switch this afternoon, the age of cable
television will begin officially in
Columbia.
Pugh will activate the Columbia
Cablevision system at the system's
grand opening, scheduled for 2 p.m. at
the Tiger Hotel Ballroom.
Columbia Mayor Les Proctor will
activate "home box office" service, an
additional outlet featuring recent
movies, sporting events and per- -
formances by leading entertainers.
Columbia Cablevision has received
about 2,000 applications for the sen-ic- e
so far, with about 40 per cent coming
from the Third and Fourth wards.
Final installations for the ap-proximately
200 subscribers in the
Fourth Ward will begin today with the
rest of the Columbia subscribers
scheduled to be hooked up to the system
by the end of March 1978. Cable sub-scribers
will be able to receive 16
television and 24 FM radio stations
along with home box office. Subscribers
may choose one, two or all three of the
services.
Cable subscribers will be able to view
programs from four St. Louis stations,
two Kansas City stations and seven
local outlets.
The FM cable service will pickup
signals from 17 Missouri stations.
From St. Louis, KTVI, ABC on
channel 2; KMOX, CBS on channel 4
and KSD, NBC on channel 5, will be
available, although their programming
is essentially the same as Columbia's
and Jefferson City's present television
stations. KMOX, a 23-hour-a--
day
station, appears to be the most valuable
of the three simply because of its late-nig- ht
movies, a service Columbia
presently lacks.
KETC, the St. Louis Public Broad-casting
System outlet on channel 9, also
will be available. The station offers a
variety of children's educational
programs Sesame Street, Zoom, and
Electric Company along with many
documentaries and movies.
From Kansas City, KBMA, an in-dependent
station on channel 14, and
KCPT, PBS on channel 19. will be
available. KBMA lists many syndicated
programs, from Popeye and Bozo to
Star Trek and The Best of Groucho.
KCPT has basically the same listings
as St. Louis' KETC.'although it does list
Masterpiece Theater and Book Beat.
In addition to these stations,
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r lit town a
today
7:30p.m. "Dial 'M' for Mur-der."
Nifong Park, $1 adults, 50
cents children.
8 p.m. "The Hot 1 Baltimore,"
University Theatre, $2.50.
8 p.m. MSA Coffeehouse, J
Bengal Lair Deck, Memorial
Union.
8:15 p.m. Missouri Symphony
Society Chamber Orchestra with
soloist Bil Jackson, Windsor
Lounge, Stephens.
8:15 p.m. "The Beautiful
People," Arrow Rock Lyceum
Theatre, Arrow Rock, $3.50
adults, $2.25 children.
Exhibits:
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibit
schedules.
Movie listings on page 13.
Disabled vets9 blind to be allowed
to fish without buying licenses
By Sue A. Merkner
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Severely
disabled veterans and blind persons
now will be able to fish in Missouri
without purchasing a license, the
Missouri Conservation Commission
decided Thursday.
The decision requires veterans with a
75 per cent disability and blind persons
to carry proof of their disability while
fishing in lieu of a state permit.
Larry Gale, deputy director of the
commission, said the provision has
been used successfully in other states
and involves only a small number of
persons, "usually less than 1 per cent."
Gale estimated that "a few
thousand" persons in Missouri would be
affected by the decision.
Gale said the provision probably
would not take effect before Jan. 1,
1978.
Several other states have such
provisions for the blind, disabled or
mentally handicapped, Gale said, in-cluding
Utah, Washington, Virginia,
Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama, Con-necticut
and Colorado.
Gale said the percentage of persons
receiving free privileges in those states
range from about two-thousan- ds of a
per cent to five-tent- hs of a per cent of
the total number- - of permits issued in
the state.
The conservation department has
received inquiries in the past en-couraging
such a provision, Gale said,
especially from eastern counties along
the Mississippi tuver.
Gale added that although the
provision is "workable," it also
presents problems.
"We had to strictly define 'disabled'
and 'blind,' " he said. "The disability
must be proven by a medical
examination and the person must carry
proof of the disability."
The provision allows free fishing
without a permit for Missouri residents
with a "degree of blindness that
prevents them from driving a car or, in
medical terms, having a visual acuity
not exceeding 20-200- ," Gale said.
The disability requirement applies to
state residents that are honorably
discharged veterans with a service-connect- ed
disability of 75 per cent or
more.